206 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



COTURNICULUS SAVANNARUM SAVANNARUM (Gmelin). 

 ANTILLEAN GRASSHOPPER. SPARROW, 



Adults in summer {sexts altl-t^. — Pileum l)lackish, luirrowl}" .streaked 

 with light gray or grayish biiffy and divided medially l)y a distinct line 

 of pale grayish bull'; rest of upper parts mixed grayish, pale l)iitiy, 

 rusty brown and black, the last prevailing on back and scapulars, 

 where forming large, more or'less coalesced central or median spots; 

 hindneck grayish, streaked with chestnut, the chestnut streaks some- 

 times black medially; feathers of rump streaked or spotted with rusty 

 brown, the streaks sometimes black basally ; wings dusky, with distinct 

 pale buU'v grayish edging-s, the lesser coverts mostl}" j^ellowish olive, 

 passing- into yellow on edge of wing; sides of head, including broad 

 superciliary stripe, dull bufiy, paler and more grayish on lores, the 

 supraloral region yellowish; a dusk}' postocular streak; under parts 

 buffy, becoming white or nearly so, on lower breast, abdomen, and 

 under tail-coverts; maxilla dark brown, paler on tomium; mandible 

 pale brownish (more or less lilaceous or pinkish in life); iris brown; 

 legs and feet pale brownish yellow or flaxen. 



Adults in icinter. — Similar to summer plumage, but brighter colored, 

 with less black and more of chestnut on upper parts; the median 

 crown-stripe deeper bufty, the hindneck broadly streaked with chest- 

 nut, interscapulars distinctly edged with ))utt' and gray. Inifl' of under 

 parts deeper, that of chest sometimes indistinctly streaked with 

 chestnut. 



Town (J. — Pileum dusky with an indistinct median stripe of pale 

 gra^dsh, and indistinctl}^ streaked with the same, or with pale brownish; 

 hindneck streaked with dusk}^ and pale buffy grayish; back and scap- 

 ulars dusky or dull blackish, the feathers distinctly margined with 

 dull buff'y and pale grayish; middle and greater wing-coverts margined 

 terminally with dull buffy whitish; under parts dull buffy whitish, the 

 chest distinctly streaked with dusky; sides of head more or less 

 streaked with dusky; no yellow over lores nor on edge of wing. 



Adult ///r/ A. —Length (skins), 106. 68-110. -4:9 (108.16); wdng, 66.13- 

 57.15 (56.00); tail, 37.59-1:0.61: (39.62); exposed culmen, 10.67-11.68 

 (11.18); depth of bill at base, 6.60-7.37 (6.86); tarsus, 19.81-20.57 

 (20.07); middle toe, 11.73-15.75 (11.99).^ 



Adult female.— hength (skin), 109.22; wing, 57.66; tail, 39.37; ex- 

 posed culmen, 10.92; depth of bill at base, 7.11; tarsus, 20.07; middle 

 toe, 15.21.' 



Jamaica and Porto Rico, resident; also, according to Hartert, islands 

 of Cura^-ao and Bonaire, southern Caribbean Sea.'' 



^ Three specimens from Jamai a. 



^ One specimen from Jamaica. 



^ "A series. of skins of this species [from Bonaire] agree best with specimens from 

 Jamaica, which are typical A. savannanoa and can not be separated from them. 

 The wings of the Aruban specimens measure 2.05 to 2.20 inches [52.07 to 55.88 mm.]; 

 tarsus, 1.7 [i. e. 0.70] iuclies [17.78 mm.]." (Hartert, Ibis, 1898, 327.) 



